Blanche Grambs

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Blanche Grambs
Archives of American Art - Blanche Grambs at work - 2129.jpg
Grambs at her drafting table working on a pastel drawing. Photographed for the Works Progress Administration. From the collection of the Archives of American Art.
Born
Blanche Mary Grambs

1916 (1916)
Beijing, China
Died2010 (2011)
New York
NationalityAmerican
EducationArt Students League
Known forPainting, printmaking
Notable work
Miners[1]
Miners Going to Work[2]

Blanche Grambs (1916–2010) was an American artist who is known for her prints depicting the Great Depression, coal miners, the poor, and the unemployed.[3]

Girl With Blue Hair by Blanche Grambs

Life[]

She was born in Beijing, China.[4] She trained at the Art Students League in New York under Harry Sternberg. She worked in the Works Progress Administration's Federal Art Project during the New Deal, beginning in 1936 and producing over 30 prints for the WPA. She created lithographs and intaglio prints.[4]

Grambs was actively political, attending classes in Marxist theory at the New York Workers School and participating in communist rallies. She was arrested in 1936 at an organized sit-in, protesting cuts to the WPA FAP budget. For her art, she traveled to Lanceford, Pennsylvania to create prints and etchings of the coal miners. Grambs' work reflected her political leanings and commitment to social reform.[5]

She married Hugh "Lefty" Miller, and they moved to Paris together. Shortly after their arrival, war broke out, and they moved back to New York, where she continued to work as an artist.

Her later work included contributing illustrations to over 30 children's books and in Woman's Day magazine.

Grambs' work is held in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,[6] Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Detroit Institute of Art,[7] the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art,[8] the Art Institute of Chicago,[9] the Baltimore Museum of Art,[10] the British Museum,[11] the Smithsonian American Art Museum,[12] and the University of Michigan Museum of Art.[13]

References[]

  1. ^ "Miners by Blanche Grambs / American Art". Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  2. ^ "Miners Going to Work by Blanche Grambs / American Art". Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  3. ^ "Blanche Grambs". IFPDA. Archived from the original on 2012-04-28. Retrieved 2011-12-17.
  4. ^ Jump up to: a b Heller, Jules; Heller, Nancy G. (2013-12-19). North American Women Artists of the Twentieth Century: A Biographical Dictionary. Routledge. ISBN 978-1-135-63889-4.
  5. ^ "Blanche Grambs". British Museum. Retrieved February 6, 2016.[permanent dead link]
  6. ^ www.metmuseum.org https://www.metmuseum.org/art/collection/search/374820. Retrieved 2020-12-22. Missing or empty |title= (help)
  7. ^ "Jo". www.dia.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  8. ^ "Works – Blanche Grambs – Artists – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art". Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  9. ^ "Blanche Mary Grambs". The Art Institute of Chicago. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  10. ^ "The Baltimore Museum of Art".
  11. ^ "Collections Online | British Museum". www.britishmuseum.org. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  12. ^ "Blanche Grambs | Smithsonian American Art Museum". americanart.si.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-22.
  13. ^ "Exchange|Search: artist:"Blanche Grambs"". exchange.umma.umich.edu. Retrieved 2020-12-22.

External links[]

Public Domain This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the Works Progress Administration.

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